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Restore, Renew, Reconnect: An Embodied Shabbat Experience for the New Year

Restore, Renew, Reconnect: An Embodied Shabbat Experience for the New Year

Published January 23, 2023

Restore, Renew, Reconnect: An Embodied Shabbat Experience for the New Year Saturday, January 28, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm In this 90-minute experience you will be guided through meditation, gentle movement, personal reflection, and community connection...

12 Tribes Mythologies, Past and Present

12 Tribes Mythologies, Past and Present

Published January 23, 2023

Events with MaTovu 12 Tribes Mythologies, Past and Present Tuesday, January 24, 6:00 pm on Zoom Join us for a virtual conversation with Prof. Andrew Tobolowsky about his book, The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. What does the Torah have to say...

NCJW Coffee Talk to talk bagels with the guys from Lefty’s

NCJW Coffee Talk to talk bagels with the guys from Lefty’s

Published January 21, 2023

With all the buzz going on around their new shop, the owners of the soon-to-open new "Lefty's Bagels" Doug Goldenberg and Scott Lefton are going to be talking to the public on Tuesday, January 24th as the featured guests on the monthly "Coffee Talk with...

Discussion on self-care strategies at Mirowitz

Discussion on self-care strategies at Mirowitz

Published January 19, 2023

Jessie Brown, director of programs at NAMI St. Louis, will discuss “Unwind My Mind: Self-Care Strategies” from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Mirowitz Center on January 25, 2023. Brown will look at facts and statistics about anxiety and stress, how to address...

Courtesy Joan Nathan, and “Jewish Cooking in America”

A Taste of Soup! at Traditional Congregation

Published January 19, 2023

After a three-year hiatus, A Taste of Soup is back.  On February 19, a Meat & Vegetarian soup buffet, bread for dunking and sweet treats. The cost is  $14/person in advance ($16 walk-ins); no charge for kids under 5.  Register online by Feb....

Healthy food background. Healthy food in paper bag vegetables and fruits on white. Shopping food supermarket concept. Food delivery, groceries, vegan, vegetarian eating. Top view

A Jewish case for vegetarianism

Published January 19, 2023

Does the Torah talk about vegetarianism? What do Talmudic and modern-day Jewish scholars have to say? Knowing that processing animals for food causes human and animal suffering and contributes to climate change, is there a Jewish case for vegetarianism?...

Abortion Stories: Honoring the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the work that continues

Abortion Stories: Honoring the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the work that continues

Published January 19, 2023

Sunday, January 22 from 2–4 p.m. All too often, discussions in this country regarding abortion do not involve the most important voices: the voices of those who have experienced abortion. The Focus on Abortion exhibit seeks to correct this omission...

Rabbi Sandra Lawson to kick off Shir Hadash Speaker Series

Rabbi Sandra Lawson to kick off Shir Hadash Speaker Series

Published January 19, 2023

Shir Hadash Reconstructionist Community, the only Reconstructionist congregation in the state of Missouri, will present a four-part Shabbat community education series to increase awareness and knowledge of this branch of Judaism. The series will take...

Congregation Shaare Emeth’s hosting second annual Shabbaton

Congregation Shaare Emeth’s hosting second annual Shabbaton

Published January 19, 2023

Congregation Shaare Emeth’s Keshet Committee will host a second Shabbaton that includes a virtual workshop and programming titled, All of Our Voices – Raising up diverse voices within the LGBTQ+ community, beginning Wednesday, January 25, 2023. The...

Rabbi Shoshana Cohen to lecture on navigating questions of Jewish power and vulnerability

Rabbi Shoshana Cohen to lecture on navigating questions of Jewish power and vulnerability

Published January 18, 2023

The last century has seen unprecedented lows and highs when it comes to Jewish power. Today, older Jews may have memory of Jewish vulnerability, such as the Holocaust, and the ecstasy from the Six-Day war. But younger Jews may not recall a time when US...

Learn more about JFed's "Missions to Israel@75"

Learn more about JFed’s “Missions to Israel@75”

Published January 18, 2023

The Jewish Federation of St. Louis is excited to be able to offer Community Mission for Israel @ 75. The mission has had a tremendous impact on those who have gone in the past and we hope you can join us in 2023. Registration is now open! Show Me...

Bassy Landa (center), co-director of Chabad Jewish Center of St. Charles, speaks as (from left) Rabbi Yosef Landa, Missouri Rep. Adam Schwadron, St. Charles Mayor Dan Borgmeyer and Rabbi Chaim Landa look on.

2nd Annual ‘St. Charles Jewish Festival’ will celebrate Jewish pride

Published July 6, 2022

Until recently, St. Charles County had been home to at least two dozen churches and zero synagogues.  The lack of Jewish gathering spaces in St. Charles did not appear to deter western migration, as an estimated 6,000 Jews now live in St. Charles,...

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